Meanings
Numeric
1. two; 2
ふ and ふう used mainly when counting aloud; 弐, 貳 and 貮 are used in legal documents.
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (278 in total)
two persons; two people; pair; couple
two parts; two copies; the second part
bipartite; in two parts; double
Examples (81 in total)
I slept only two hours.
Second semester has ended.
He has been studying for two hours.
About two hours have passed.
Two trucks bumped together.
Two times seven is fourteen.
I got back home after two years.
There were two abstentions.
Two crows are flying in the sky.
Take two aspirin tablets.
I waited more than two hours.
He has been sitting there for two hours.
Two families live in that house.
I slept just two hours.
These shoes will last you two years.
He has two cars.
I've been very busy the last few days.
The two ships went down at once.
You have two books.
He is two years older than Ogawa.
He took office two years ago.
He was made to wait at the station for two hours.
Tom has a two-room house.
Sam is two years younger than Tom.
Two jet planes took off at the same time.
I donate blood every three months.
I waited in line at a popular ramen shop for two hours.
It has been two years since he came to Japan.
This dish uses two eggs.
I study about two hours every day.
The two houses stand side by side.
My brother is not as tall as I was two years ago.
They lived together for two years before they got married.
Mother gives my sister two thousand yen every month.
It is two years since I came here.
Two years have passed since Jim graduated from high school.
More than 20,000 Americans are murdered each year.
It's two kilometers from the station to the library.
She stopped eating meat two years ago.
The house could accommodate two families.
He died of old age two years ago.
I've been here for the past 2 hours.
I sold the picture for 20,000 yen.
This hall holds two thousand people.
That restaurant prepares two thousand meals every day.
All books can be divided into two categories.
This is two thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
The plane circled the airport twice after taking off.
Two years ago, I couldn't play basketball at all.
Today is 23rd November 2016.
Nowadays, almost every home has one or two televisions.
Two white houses face each other and stand across the way.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Although I have been studying Chinese for 2 years, there are still a lot of words I do not know.
Tell me which of the two cameras is the better one.
Jiro isn't here now.
This book comes in two volumes.
Two months ago, I gave up smoking.
There are two dogs over there.
He has two cats.
Ken has two cats.
This is a map of Ninohe District.
The repairs will cost at least 20 pounds.
After that, you were in a state of stupor for two months.
Today is my little brother's twenty-second birthday.
You could count to ten when you were two years old.
He has a cat and two dogs.
They got off the bus and walked two kilometers in the hot sun.
I'd like to have a single room with a bath for two nights.
Modern travel enables us to go around the world in a few days.
He was let out after serving just two years of his four-year prison sentence.
He has been on a diet for two months.
They will have been staying here for two months next Sunday.
A molecule of water is made up of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.
He makes a point of writing to his parents once every two months.
She has two cats. One is black, and the other is white.
Two little squirrels, a white squirrel and a black squirrel, lived in a large forest.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
You will be able to speak fluent English in another few months.
I bought three apples and two bunches of grapes for dessert at the market.
Zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.